[OSGeo-Discuss] pgRouting version 3.5.0 release

[Victoria Rautenbach via Discuss]

Published at
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/pgrouting-version-3-5-0-release/
News item by Ashish Kumar


The pgRouting Team is pleased to announce the release of pgRouting version
3.5.0
The latest release is available at [1]
For discussions on the release, go to [2]

To see all issues & pull requests closed by this release, see the Git
closed milestone for 3.5.0 on Github. [3]

*Official functions changes*

   - Dijkstra
  - Standarizing output columns to |short-generic-result|
 - pgr_dijkstra (One to One) added start_vid and end_vid columns.
 - pgr_dijkstra (One to Many) added end_vid column.
 - pgr_dijkstra (Many to One) added start_vid column.


*To update your database*

Download the packaged version from your operating system, and use this
command in the database:
ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE TO "3.5.0";

[1]. https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases/latest
[2]. https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/discussions/2483
[3].
https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93=milestone%3A%22Release%203.5.0%22

Regards,
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[OSGeo-Discuss] GDAL 3.6.1 is released

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News item by Even Rouault
Published at https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-3-6-1-is-released/


On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team, I am pleased to announce the
release of the GDAL/OGR 3.6.1 bug fix version.

Important: GDAL 3.6.1 officially retracts GDAL 3.6.0 which could cause
corruption of the spatial index of GeoPackage files it created (in
tables with 100 000 features or more): cf
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/51188 and
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/6911. GDAL 3.6.1 fixes that issue.
Setting OGR_GPKG_ALLOW_THREADED_RTREE=NO environment variable (at
generation time) also works around the issue with GDAL 3.6.0. Users who
have generated corrupted GeoPackage files with 3.6.0 can regnerate them
with 3.6.1 with, for example, "ogr2ogr out_ok.gpkg in_corrupted.gpkg"
(assuming a GeoPackage file with vector content only)

Consult the release notes for the list of issues addressed :
   https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.6.1/NEWS.md

The sources are available at:

 https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.6.1/gdal-3.6.1.tar.xz
 https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.6.1/gdal-3.6.1.tar.gz
 https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.6.1/gdal361.zip

Best regards,

Even

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[OSGeo-Discuss] pgRouting version 3.4.1, 3.4.0 and version 3.3.5, 3.3.4 release

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*Published
at 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/pgrouting-version-3-4-1-3-4-0-and-version-3-3-5-3-3-4-release/
*
*News item by Ashish Kumar*


Hello pgRouting community,

*The pgRouting Team is pleased to announce the release of pgRouting
versions 3.4.1, 3.4.0 and 3.3.5, 3.3.4*

The latest release is available at [1]
The fixes were backported to the previous versions [2]

*To see all issues & pull requests closed by version 3.4.1, see the Git
closed milestone for 3.4.1* [3]

*Issue fixes*

   - #2401: pgRouting 3.4.0 do not build docs when sphinx is too low or
   missing
   - #2398: v3.4.0 does not upgrade from 3.3.3


*To see all issues & pull requests closed by version 3.4.0, see the Git
closed milestone for 3.4.0* [4]

*Issue fixes*

   - #1891: pgr_ksp doesn't give all correct shortest path

*New proposed functions*

   - With points
  - pgr_withPointsVia (One Via)
   - Turn Restrictions
  - Via with turn restrictions
 - pgr_trspVia (One Via)
 - pgr_trspVia_withPoints (One Via)
  - pgr_trsp
 - pgr_trsp (One to One)
 - pgr_trsp (One to Many)
 - pgr_trsp (Many to One)
 - pgr_trsp (Many to Many)
 - pgr_trsp (Combinations)
  - pgr_trsp_withPoints
 - pgr_trsp_withPoints (One to One)
 - pgr_trsp_withPoints (One to Many)
 - pgr_trsp_withPoints (Many to One)
 - pgr_trsp_withPoints (Many to Many)
 - pgr_trsp_withPoints (Combinations)
  - Topology
  - pgr_degree
   - Utilities
  - pgr_findCloseEdges (One point)
  - pgr_findCloseEdges (Many points)

*New experimental functions*

   - Ordering
  - pgr_cuthillMckeeOrdering
   - Unclassified
  - pgr_hawickCircuits

*Official functions changes*

   - Flow functions
  - pgr_maxCardinalityMatch(text)
   - Deprecating pgr_maxCardinalityMatch(text,boolean)

*Deprecated functions*

   - Turn Restrictions
  - pgr_trsp(text,integer,integer,boolean,boolean,text)
  - pgr_trsp(text,integer,float8,integer,float8,boolean,boolean,text)
  - pgr_trspViaVertices(text,anyarray,boolean,boolean,text)
  - pgr_trspViaEdges(text,integer[],float[],boolean,boolean,text)

*To update your database:*

Download the packaged version from your operating system, and use this
command in the database:
ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE TO "3.4.1";


[1] https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases/latest
[2] https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases
[3]
https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93=milestone%3A%22Release%203.4.1%22
[4]
https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93=milestone%3A%22Release%203.4.0%22

--
Regards,
pgRouting Team.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OTB version 8.1.0 has been released

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*News item by OSMAN JulienPublished at
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/otb-version-8-1-0-has-been-released/
*


Dear OSGeo community,

We are happy to announce that OTB version 8.1.0 has been released!

This minor version brings multiple corrections to the Metadata framework,
in particular with Pleiades products. It also comes with an improvement to
the DEM Handler that won’t read multiple time the same directory. This new
behavior is described in the documentation. The NewFunctorFilter now has a
default value for the radius. And with this release, PyOTB can finally
unleash all it’s power.

The release also fixes a behavior of Superimpose application, which writes
RPC on final products if the initial product is not orthorectified, it also
includes some documentation improvements and dead code removal.

Note about known issues : Some PHR products metadata are missing when using
the DIMAP driver leading to some errors when trying to orthorectify the
product, see the RELEASE_NOTES for more details.

We welcome your feedback and requests on OTB’s GitLab and if you find a
bug, please report it !

Sincerely,
The OTB team.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] pgRouting version 3.3.2 release

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*Published at
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/pgrouting-version-3-3-2-release/
*
*News item by Ashish Kumar*

Hello pgRouting community,

As a part of the FOSS4G 2022 Firenze (Italy) Codesprint,

*The pgRouting Team is pleased to announce the release of pgRouting version
3.3.2*

The latest release is available at [1]
For discussions on the release, go to [2]

To see all issues & pull requests closed by this release, see the Git
closed milestone for 3.3.2 on Github. [3]

*Revised documentation*

   - Simplifying table names and table columns, for example:
  - edges instead of edge_table
 - Removing unused columns category_id and reverse_category_id.
  - combinations instead of combinations_table
  - Using PostGIS standard for geometry column.
 - geom instead of the_geom
  - Avoiding usage of functions that modify indexes, columns etc on
  tables.
 - Using pgr_extractVertices to create a routing topology
  - Restructure of the pgRouting concepts page.

*Issue fixes*

   - #2276: edgeDisjointPaths issues with start_vid and combinations
   - #2312: pgr_extractVertices error when target is not BIGINT
   - #2357: Apply clang-tidy performance


*To update your database*

Download the packaged version from your operating system, and use this
command in the database:
ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE TO "3.3.2";

[1]. https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases/latest
[2]. https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/discussions/2359
[3].
https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93=milestone%3A%22Release%203.3.2%22

Regards,
pgRouting Team.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] pygeoapi Graduates OSGeo Incubation

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Published at
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/pygeoapi-graduates-osgeo-incubation/
*News item by Tom Kralidis*


Date: 2022-08-21

OSGeo is pleased to announce that the pygeoapi project has graduated from
incubation and is now a full-fledged OSGeo project. Tom Kralidis, pygeoapi
founder and chair of the pygeoapi Project Steering Committee (PSC), has
been appointed as project officer.

pygeoapi is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of
standards. The project provides a low barrier, off the shelf capability for
data providers to deliver their geospatial data, metadata and services
using OGC APIs, as well as for Python developers to extend, customize and
integrate with custom plugins and templates. pygeoapi supports
microservices architectures, and can be deployed using a number of
different deployment patterns (cloud, on premises, etc.).

Graduating incubation includes fulfilling requirements for open community
operation, a responsible project governance model, code provenance, and
general good project operation. Graduation is the OSGeo seal of approval
for a project and gives potential users and the community at large an added
confidence in the viability and safety of the project.

The pygeoapi Project Steering Committee says, “*The pygeoapi team is
excited to be recognized as an official OSGeo project. The OSGeo stamp of
approval / status has been a goal of the project since its inception in
2018. We are also happy that the project aligns with the directions of the
recently updated OGC / OSGeo Memorandum of Understanding in moving forward
Open Source and Open Standards. We are honoured to be a part of OSGeo and
such a solid group of projects*“.

OSGeo and the pygeoapi project would like to thank Michael Smith and Jody
Garnett for their assistance during this Incubation process.

Congratulations to the pygeoapi community!



*About pygeoapi*

pygeoapi is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of
standards. The project emerged as part of the next generation OGC API
efforts in 2018 and provides the capability for organizations to deploy a
RESTful OGC API endpoint using OpenAPI, GeoJSON, and HTML. pygeoapi is open
source and released under an MIT license.

*About OSGeo*

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit
organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial
technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open
philosophy and participatory community driven development.

The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the
broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent
legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and
other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be
maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and
advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and
provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving
cross-project collaboration.

Visit osgeo.org for more information.
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software - Call for Nominations

[Victoria Rautenbach via Discuss]

Just a reminder that the nominations for the Sol Katz Award will close
end-of-day on 8 July.

Please see below for more information.



On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 2:34 PM Victoria Rautenbach
 wrote:
>
> News item by Jeff McKenna
> Published at 
> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sol-katz-award-for-geospatial-free-and-open-source-software-call-for-nominations-2/
>
> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 
> 2022 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software.
>
> The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 
> will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G 
> community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly 
> through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial 
> realm.
>
> Sol Katz was an early pioneer of FOSS4G and left behind a large body of work 
> in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities while at 
> the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early FOSS4G archive provided both 
> source code and applications freely available to the community. Sol was also 
> a frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much 
> guidance to the geospatial community at large.
>
> Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but his 
> legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in making a 
> donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's family's request, can 
> do so at https://donate.cancer.org .
>
> Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to solkatzaward at lists 
> dot osgeo dot org with a description of the reasons for this nomination 
> (after sending, please wait for the moderator to accept your message). 
> Nominations will be accepted until end-of-day July 8th Anywhere on Earth. A 
> recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo selection 
> committee.
>
> The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software 
> will be announced virtually during the FOSS4G 2022 event in Florence, Italy. 
> The hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community 
> members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come.
>
> It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members are not 
> eligible.
>
> Past Awardees:
>
>  2021: Malena Libman
>  2020: Anita Graser
>  2019: Even Rouault
>  2018: Astrid Emde
>  2017: Andrea Aime
>  2016: Jeff McKenna
>  2015: Maria Brovelli
>  2014: Gary Sherman
>  2013: Arnulf Christl
>  2012: Venkatesh Raghavan
>  2011: Martin Davis
>  2010: Helena Mitasova
>  2009: Daniel Morissette
>  2008: Paul Ramsey
>  2007: Steve Lime
>  2006: Markus Neteler
>  2005: Frank Warmerdam
>
> Selection Committee 2022:
>
> Jeff McKenna (chair)
> Frank Warmerdam
> Markus Neteler
> Steve Lime
> Paul Ramsey
> Sophia Parafina
> Daniel Morissette
> Helena Mitasova
> Martin Davis
> Venkatesh Raghavan
> Arnulf Christl
> Gary Sherman
> Maria Brovelli
> Andrea Aime
> Astrid Emde
> Even Rouault
> Anita Graser
> Ariel Anthieni
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Student conference - GeoforAll competition winners

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Dear All

The presentation is taking place today and we will start soon. Hope
you can join.

Regards
Victoria

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 8:47 AM Victoria Rautenbach
 wrote:
>
> Dear All
>
> I would like to invite you to us for presentations by our 2021 GeoforAll 
> student competition winners.
>
> Date and time: 23 February 13:00 GMT, 
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GeoforAll+student+conference=20220223T15=269=2
>
> Zoom: 
> https://up-ac-za.zoom.us/j/94205700628?pwd=UWdGZFR4elpYKzA0ZFkzSmcrUkZJdz09
>
> Schedule:
> Welcome
> English session (chair: Victoria Rautenbach)
>
> Introducing autoESDA: A python package for automated exploratory spatial data 
> analysis (ESDA), Nicholas De Kock
> Web Based GIS Application for Public Services in Qena City, Mohamed Shamroukh 
> Mohamed
> Variability of wheat and maize phenology from Sentinel-1 and -2 data, Atikul 
> Hoque
> Youth for Environmental Development: Improving the dire State of Environment 
> in Urban Communities through Citizen Science and Community Engagement, 
> Patrick Ken Kalonde
>
> Spanish session (chair: Sergio Acosta y Lara)
>
> Efecto de la variabilidad climática en la salud e inmunidad del lobo marino 
> de California, Carla Cadena Valdivia
> IGNIS Reporte ciudadano de incendios forestales, Iván Ramírez
>
>
>
> Each presentation will be 10 min with 5 min of questions and discussion. 
> There might be a couple of extra presentations in the last session.
>
> If you are unable to join us, the recording of the session will be available 
> on the GeoforAll YouTube, 
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL1E2akvCNWP_nC0p5CpB8g/featured
>
> Let me know if you have any questions. I hope to (virtually) see some of you 
> at the presentations.
>
> Regards
> Victoria
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Student conference - GeoforAll competition winners

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Dear All

I would like to invite you to us for presentations by our 2021 GeoforAll
student competition winners.

*Date and time*: 23 February 13:00 GMT,
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GeoforAll+student+conference=20220223T15=269=2

*Zoom*:
https://up-ac-za.zoom.us/j/94205700628?pwd=UWdGZFR4elpYKzA0ZFkzSmcrUkZJdz09

*Schedule*:
*Welcome*
*English session (chair: Victoria Rautenbach)*

   - Introducing autoESDA: A python package for automated exploratory
   spatial data analysis (ESDA), *Nicholas De Kock*
   - Web Based GIS Application for Public Services in Qena City, *Mohamed
   Shamroukh Mohamed*
   - Variability of wheat and maize phenology from Sentinel-1 and -2 data,
   Atikul Hoque
   - Youth for Environmental Development: Improving the dire State of
   Environment in Urban Communities through Citizen Science and Community
   Engagement,* Patrick Ken Kalonde*

*Spanish session (chair: Sergio Acosta y Lara)*

   - Efecto de la variabilidad climática en la salud e inmunidad del lobo
   marino de California, *Carla Cadena Valdivia*
   - IGNIS Reporte ciudadano de incendios forestales, *Iván Ramírez*



Each presentation will be 10 min with 5 min of questions and discussion.
There might be a couple of extra presentations in the last session.

If you are unable to join us, the recording of the session will be
available on the GeoforAll YouTube,
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL1E2akvCNWP_nC0p5CpB8g/featured

Let me know if you have any questions. I hope to (virtually) see some of
you at the presentations.

Regards
Victoria
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: FOSS4G - Student grants

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Dear All

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the free ticket to the
upcoming FOSS4G 2021 Buenos Aires Online conference. Below is the complete
list:

*Akintunde Kuye*, Centre for Environmental Policy/Imperial College London
*Ana Cecilia Rodríguez*, Facultad de Agronomía UDELAR
*Anderson de Oliveira*, Urban Planning/ University Ninth of July
*Antonia Beatriz Ferreira Andrade*, Universidade Federal do Ceará
*Daniel Adi Nugroho*, Department of Geography, Faculty of Mathematics and
Natural Sciences, Universitas Indonesia
*Felix Chinaemere Okedimma*, Forestry and Wildlife Management, University
of Port Harcourt, Choba, Nigeria
*itzayana gonzález ávila*, UFRGS
*Jaqueline Lima Amorim*, UNEB - Universidade do Estado da Bahia,
Departamento de e Ciências Exatas e da Terra
*Jaqueline Pisetta*, Federal University of Paraná - Geodesic Sciences
*Jonathan Onyedikachi Osuorji*, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of
Forestry and Wildlife Management
*Kavita Mitkari*, Computer Science & Engineering, Punjab Engineering
College (Deemed to be University)
*Martin Ezequiel Formía*, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Instituto de
Estudios Geográficos, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
*Mauricio Andrades **Paixao*, IPH/UFRGS
*Maurício Humberto*, Vancine Department of Biodiversity / UNESP, Rio Claro,
Brazil
*Omar Ali*, Electrical Engineering, Ain Shams University
*Orlando Inacio Jalane*, Geografia, Universidade Federal do Ceará
*Saif Ul Islam*, Computer Science, National University Of Computing And
Emerging Sciences
*Shriti Mukherjee*, CEPT University, faculty of technology (Geomatics)
*Tais Carolina de Oliveira Alcântara*, Ufpa
*Vitor Silva de **Araujo*, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Geodésicas
- UFPR

If you are a recipient, please email me (victoria.rautenb...@gmail.com) as
soon as possible. Due to my mistake, we did not capture the emails. So *if
this is one of your students, please ask them to contact me, or provide me
with their email*.

Congratulations to the recipients again.

Regards
Victoria


On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 9:06 AM Victoria Rautenbach <
victoria.rautenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All
>
> Thanks to Suchith Anand and the FOSS4G LOC there will be a couple of
> free tickets that will be given to deserving students for the 2021
> FOSS4G conference (https://2021.foss4g.org/).
>
> Please distribute and encourage your students to apply for this grant,
> especially students presenting or working in open source. They can
> apply for the grant here, https://forms.gle/AJUmSf1XBQtUjta4A The
> deadline for applications is 13 August.
>
> Regards
> Victoria
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint 2020 (17-19 November 2020)

[Victoria Rautenbach]

Dear All

We would like to remind everyone of the OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint 2020
that will take place 17-19 November 2020. Information about schedule and
meetings have been added to the wiki:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020

The sprint will be open every day from 8am UTC to midnight UTC, with a
couple of special sessions scheduled (meeting links available in the wiki):

   - A short kick off meeting will start at 8am UTC every day in the main
   room
   - A welcome session is planned for Tue 17 Nov 1pm UTC in the main room
   - At the end of each day, a daily report session is planned around 10pm
   UTC


The code sprint is also open to anyone! If you are interested in getting
involved in any of the projects, join one of the daily sessions to get
started.

Any questions can be posted also to any of the available communication
channels,
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020#Communication

Happy coding,
OSGeo Board
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Welcoming our new OSGeo Charter Members 2020

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News item, 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2020/

Congratulations and welcome to all our new OSGeo Charter Members!

In 2020, we had 31 nominations and 29 were accepted. This year, 304
votes were casted the highest number to date (209 in 2019, 276 in
2018). The OSGeo board approved the new members in November 2020.

We are happy to announce that the following people were accepted as
OSGeo Charter Members:
Alessandro Sarretta (2020) Italy
Andrew Jeffrey (2020) Australia
Antoni Pérez Navarro (2020) Spain
Cameron Green (2020) South Africa
David Garcia (2020) Aotearoa
Edwin Liava'a (2020) Tonga
Fabian Schindler (2020) Austria
Francesco Bartoli (2020) Italy
Jérome Boué (2020) France
Joachim Ungar (2020) Austria
Jonah Sullivan (2020) Australia
Joonho Lee (2020) South Korea
Jörg Thomsen (2020) Germany
Katja Haferkorn (2020) Germany
Laura Mugeha (2020) Kenya
Laurențiu Nicola (2020) Romania
Marino Carhuapoma (2020) Peru
Mark Prins (2020) Netherlands
Mark Varley (2020) France
Neftalí Sillero (2020) Portugal
Nora Lucioni 2020) Argentina
Olivier Hagolle (2020) France
Paolo Dabove (2020) Italy
Paulo Coronado (2020) Colombia
Rahul Chauhan (2020) India
Raul Nanclares da Veiga (2020) México
Ricardo Silva (2020) Portugal
Stefano Campus (2020) Italy
Ujaval Gandhi (2020) India

OSGeo now has a total number of 487 members for 62 countries. You can
access a summary of our membership here,
https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/774711f0-9854-432f-b41e-0154958f4566

Congratulations again to our new Charter Members!
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[OSGeo-Discuss] 2020 OSGeo AGM – First virtual annual general meeting

[Victoria Rautenbach]

News item at,
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/2020-osgeo-agm-first-virtual-annual-general-meeting/

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we held our annual general meeting (AGM)
virtually this year on 10 September 2020. In this news article, we provide
a short report on this successful event.

This year’s OSGeo annual general meeting (AGM) was dedicated to the memory
of Olivier Courtin (charter member from 2014) who recently passed. Olivier
was a member of the MapServer PSC, co-founder of the Oslandia chapter and
creator of the TinyOWS project. He was a beloved member of the OSGeo
community and will be missed by all. Our thoughts and prayers are with his
family.

The OSGeo annual general meeting (AGM) took place on 10 September 2020 and
had over 100 participants worldwide that attended the event. Since then,
the recording on YouTube 
has been viewed over 460 times. The aim of the AGM was to provide an update
on the activities of the Board of Directors, upcoming events, projects,
committees and many more. You can view the full slide deck here
.


To start the AGM off, our President, Angelos Tzotsos provided a quick
overview of OSGeo including membership, sponsor and local chapters as this
meeting was open to the general community and not only charter members.
This was followed by reports from the chair of the board, the treasurer and
secretary. Next the chief returning officer (CRO) presented the information
from the 2019 election at which 38 nominees were confirmed as charter
members. OSGeo currently has 456 active charter members.

OSGeo is also excited to announce that we are a Category A liaison with ISO/TC
211  which will allow our members to
access documentation and also participate in the standardising process.
Additionally over the last 2 years we have also strengthened our
relationship with OGC, and relevant projects are working hard on
certification services for OGC  compliance. We have
also participated in the OGC code sprints and hope to do more joint events
in the future.

Unfortunately, the 2020 global conference, called FOSS4G, had to be
cancelled due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions. The
board and all OSGeo members thank the local organising committee for their
hard work. But this event led into the discussion of how we will handle
conferences and events in a post-COVID society. At the moment, the 2021
FOSS4G in Buenos Aires is still confirmed. There were also a number of
successful online events (i.e. conferences, code sprints, etc) that were
held in 2020 and we thank all the organisers.

This was followed by the reports from various projects, committees and
initiatives. All 8 current committees present on their work since the last
AGM and plans for the upcoming year. Additionally, the Lexicon committee
also presented their work as they were in formation. Next was the OSGeo
projects, and a total of 20 projects presented their activities and how
they are working under the current circumstances. There are currently 4
active projects in incubation working hard to graduate to full OSGeo
projects, and 6 community projects. An advantage of the virtual AGM was
that projects had a bit more time, and it was great to hear about all their
accomplishments. All participants were amazed by the amount of work that
all the projects have done over the last year and we like to thank all the
contributors and leadership teams.

OSGeo is proud of the fact that we have over 60 local chapters world-wide
on all continents (apart from Antartica). These chapters provide a way for
members across the world to connect with like minded individuals in their
own country and language. Every year there is a large number of local
events, and this would not be possible without the local leadership and
enthusiastic community, thank you all! We have 24 local chapters that
presented their activities during the AGM.

OSGeo and its members are also involved in various initiatives, such as the
Google Summer of Code (GSoC), Google Code-in (GCI) and Google Season of
Docs (GSoD). Each of these presented what happened in the 2019/2020 edition
of these activities as they are key to attract students to open source
development and also technical writers. Lastly, an update was provided on
the archival of over 1000 photos from past events that is currently on
Flicker and the recent discovery of the MOSS repo that is fundamental in
various of our projects.

To end the day, the 2020 Sol Katz Award

that is awarded annually to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in
the community was awarded to Anita Graser. Anita Graser is a spatial data
scientist and an open source GIS advocate. She is doing mobility research.
She is 

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo GitHub Sponsors profile is live

[Victoria Rautenbach]

News item at,
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-github-sponsors-profile-is-live/

OSGeo provides financial, organisational and legal support to the broader
open source geospatial community, but we rely on our sponsors to enable us
to do this for the community. Firstly, we would like to thank and
acknowledge all our current sponsors ! To
make it easier for the larger user community of our projects to support and
sponsor OSGeo, we decided to join the GitHub sponsorship programme.

GitHub Sponsors

allows the developer community to financially support the people and
organizations who design, build, and maintain the open source projects they
depend on, directly on GitHub. We are still accepting sponsors via
communication with the treasure or paypal, this is just an added method
(read more on How to become a sponsor?
).

Through the GitHub sponsorship programme, we received our first $10
USD/month sponsorship within 26 minutes (wow)! So we hope to get more
sponsors via GitHub that can enable us to provide more resources to our
projects and invest in our global community.

GitHub Become a sponsor to OSGeo, https://github.com/sponsors/OSGeo
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [GCI-mentors] Thank you all for 10 incredible years of Google Code-in

[Victoria Rautenbach]

Good day

The 2019 OSGeo GCI Admin team thought we would share this with you.
The 2019 edition of GCI was the last, the Google Open Source group
will now GSoC and Summer of Docs.

OSGeo participated in GCI for 3 years! Over the three years, we worked
with 898 students that completed 2096 tasks across various OSGeo
projects. Thank you to those of you that served as mentors or answered
questions from GCI students. Thank you!

Regards
OSGeo GCI Admins team



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From: 'Stephanie Taylor' via Google Code-in Mentors

Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 6:55 PM
Subject: [GCI-mentors] Thank you all for 10 incredible years of Google Code-in


Hi GCI Mentors and Org Admins,


Google Code-in concluded 10 amazing, productive, exhilarating years in
January. This program has been a success because of the amazing energy
and passion all of you have exhibited; volunteering dozens, hundreds,
and in some cases, thousands(!) of hours to help 14,700+ teenagers,
from 115+ countries, complete a whopping 76,200+ open source tasks,
during the past 10 years!


We wanted all of you to be among the first to know that Google Code-in
2019 was our final Google Code-in contest. We've been looking hard at
our portfolio of programs and as open source evolves, our programs
need to evolve too. We've decided to focus our efforts on Google
Summer of Code and programs like Season of Docs that meet projects'
sustainability needs going into the next 10 years of open source.


We want to thank you all for being inspiring role models to these
students. Many of you were GCI or GSoC students yourselves and have
been paying it forward for years by helping teenagers discover their
passion for open source software development. The extent of your
support was something many didn’t expect when they first started out
trying to complete a few tasks to earn a Google T-shirt.


You have welcomed students into your communities and shown them how
open source is making the world a better place and how they can be a
part of that. You all have inspired, taught, listened, and made a
difference in the lives of thousands of students. THANK YOU! These
students have brought fresh new perspectives and ideas into your
communities, inspiring long-term committers with their enthusiasm,
curiosity and skills.


Many of you have been mentors for all 10 years of GCI (plus GHOP!),
while others came into the GCI family just this past year. Regardless
of when you joined, thank you all for showing immense kindness,
patience, dedication, organization and guidance to the students, the
other mentors in our GCI community, and to me and the rest of our team
over the years.


These past 10 years of Google Code-in have been an exciting,
adrenaline pumping adventure – thanks for coming along on the ride
with us!


We will continue to be dedicated to helping open source communities be
sustainable and finding new contributors is an essential part of those
efforts. While Google Code-in is now officially retired, we look
forward to finding new ways to support your communities.


Best,

Stephanie Taylor

GCI Program Lead


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[OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder: Call for mentors for the upcoming Google Code-In contest (for students aged 13-17)

[Victoria Rautenbach]

Dear All

Just reminder to sign up as a OSGeo mentor for the 2019 GCI before end
of the week, if you are interested.

Regards
Victoria



-- Forwarded message -
From: Victoria Rautenbach 
Date: Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 9:56 AM
Subject: Call for mentors for the upcoming Google Code-In contest (for
students aged 13-17)
To: osgeolist , GeoForAll 


This is a call for OSGeo mentors for the Google Code-in contest (where
 short 3-5 hour tasks are created for students aged 13-17).  Last year
was our second time participating and we had 18 community members that
contributed 132 tasks from 10 projects (e.g. istSOS, GRASS GIS,
GeoServer, MapServer, pgRouting, PostGIS, and Leaflet) and also OSGeo
and FOSS4G. The tasks are short, only 3-5 hours long, and are not only
about coding but can be documentation, testing, creating logos,
videos, blogs, and fun things that kids like to do.

If you are new within OSGeo/GeoforAll, Google Code-in is a great way
to get to know other community members and to contribute.

Interested mentors are asked to fill in the short Google form at
https://forms.gle/XrLH2ErsKXwArKTr8

The contests starts 2 December and ends 21 January. But OSGeo's
application is due 26 October, so if you're interested, please fill in
that Google form right away (having mentors helps our chances to have
the application accepted). You can see the full timeline of the
contest at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2019

Last year we had tasks from projects such as istSOS, GRASS GIS,
GeoServer, MapServer, pgRouting, PostGIS, and Leaflet. Let's have more
this year!!

Please share this to your OSGeo projects (official/incubation/community).

Thanks!
-Code-in admins 2019
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for mentors for the upcoming Google Code-In contest (for students aged 13-17)

[Victoria Rautenbach]

This is a call for OSGeo mentors for the Google Code-in contest (where
 short 3-5 hour tasks are created for students aged 13-17).  Last year
was our second time participating and we had 18 community members that
contributed 132 tasks from 10 projects (e.g. istSOS, GRASS GIS,
GeoServer, MapServer, pgRouting, PostGIS, and Leaflet) and also OSGeo
and FOSS4G. The tasks are short, only 3-5 hours long, and are not only
about coding but can be documentation, testing, creating logos,
videos, blogs, and fun things that kids like to do.

If you are new within OSGeo/GeoforAll, Google Code-in is a great way
to get to know other community members and to contribute.

Interested mentors are asked to fill in the short Google form at
https://forms.gle/XrLH2ErsKXwArKTr8

The contests starts 2 December and ends 21 January. But OSGeo's
application is due 26 October, so if you're interested, please fill in
that Google form right away (having mentors helps our chances to have
the application accepted). You can see the full timeline of the
contest at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2019

Last year we had tasks from projects such as istSOS, GRASS GIS,
GeoServer, MapServer, pgRouting, PostGIS, and Leaflet. Let's have more
this year!!

Please share this to your OSGeo projects (official/incubation/community).

Thanks!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reminder - Academic track deadline (1 March): FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest Call for Contributions Open

[Victoria Rautenbach]

Dear All

Just a quick reminder that the deadline for the academic track is 1 March.
The academic track proceedings will once again be published in the ISPRS
Archives, which is indexed by Scopus. Thank you to Maria and the LOC for
this.

All the information is available on the website,
https://2019.foss4g.org/call-for-papers/academic-sessions/

Regards
Victoria




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> From: Codrina Maria Ilie 
> Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 4:48 PM
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest Call for Contributions Open
> To: , 
>
>
> Dear geospatial friend,
>
> We are happy to invite you to come present your work at FOSS4G 2019
> Bucharest! The call for contributions is now open.
>
> You succeeded in overcoming a difficult issue of an open source
> geospatial library and you can’t wait to put it to the test? Or maybe
> you are beginning a new project and you can’t wait to gather ideas
> around it? Or you are keen to share the intermediate results of our
> geospatial endeavors and to see how your peers would deal with the
> foreseen deadlocks? Then FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest is the event where you
> need to be at! Even though the underlying backbone of FOSS4G is strictly
> defined by open source related activities, make no mistake, this is
> where geo-domains leaders, high-end developers, senior and junior users,
> university professors and researchers have been coming for the last 10
> years for their geo-update. Thus, where to best present your work and
> achievements if not at the focal point of the geospatial international
> community?
>
> You can submit three types of contributions[1]: talk[2], workshop[3] and
> academic paper[4]. Do pay special attention when checking the details
> (especially the deadlines!) on each dedicated page.
>
> And don’t forget of our #historicalearlybird offer[5]. If you hurry, you
> just might still catch one of the 100 special T-shirts!..
>
> With confidence for a wonderful FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest program built with
> your contributions,
> FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest team
>
> [1] https://2019.foss4g.org/call-for-papers/
> [2] https://2019.foss4g.org/call-for-papers/general-sessions/
> [3] https://2019.foss4g.org/call-for-papers/workshop-proposals/
> [4] https://2019.foss4g.org/call-for-papers/academic-sessions/
> [5] https://2019.foss4g.org/register/
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate manifesto - Victoria Rautenbach

[Victoria Rautenbach]

Dear All

Please find my candidate manifesto at [1]. Thank you again for this
opportunity.

Good luck to all candidates.

Regards
Victoria

[1]
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018_Candidate_Manifestos#Victoria_Rautenbach
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Charter member nomination: Lyzi Diamond

[Victoria Rautenbach]

+1



On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Jorge Sanz  wrote:
> +1 jorge
>
>
>
> On 5 September 2017 at 10:49, María Arias de Reyna 
> wrote:
>>
>> +1
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Vasile Craciunescu
>>  wrote:
>> > Forwarding Lyzi Diamond nomination by Sara Safavi. The 2017 member
>> > nominations list was updated [1].
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Vasile & Jeff
>> > 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs
>> >
>> > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2017
>> >
>> >
>> >  Forwarded Message 
>> > Subject:Charter member nomination: Lyzi Diamond
>> > Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:27:36 -0500
>> > From:   Sara Safavi 
>> > To: Vasile Craciunescu , OSGeo Chief
>> > Returning
>> > Officer 
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Nominee: Lyzi Diamond, lyzidiam...@gmail.com
>> > 
>> > - USA
>> >
>> > I would like to nominate Lyzi Diamond for OSGeo charter membership. Lyzi
>> > is
>> > an engineer and an educator, and a great contributor to the open source
>> > geo
>> > community on both fronts. With her work as co-founder of the
>> > international
>> > phenomenon, Maptime (maptime.io ), Lyzi gained
>> > recognition as a community leader dedicated to bringing cartography,
>> > geospatial technology, and mapping education to everyone. Since then she
>> > has
>> > continued to work towards making geo-related information more accessible
>> > to
>> > all. I often find myself referencing, and referring others, to Lyzi's
>> > blog
>> > posts, articles, tutorials, and talks as excellent resources.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Nomination of Msilikale Msilanga as OSGeo Charter Member

[Victoria Rautenbach]

+1

Victoria


On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Simone Dalmasso
 wrote:
> +1 for me too.
>
> 2017-08-26 22:36 GMT+02:00 Polimi :
>>
>> I'm honored of nominating Msilikale  Msilanga as OSGeo Charter Member.
>>
>> He is consulting the World Bank on Transportation and ICT by collecting in
>> Tanzania geospatial information on transportation,  education, and public
>> facilities and by training the government on Open Data. He has a huge
>> experience in community based projects (using FOSS) for flooding resilience
>> in informal settlements.
>>
>> He has been working with the local community since 2011 helping them to
>> understand how to use the mapping equipment for collaborative projects.
>>
>> After the experience in Tanzania, he also helped the creation of the first
>> community mapping in Mozambique.
>>
>> Moreover, Msilikale is one of the two chairs of FOSS4G 2018 in Dar Er
>> Salaam. I believe that his experience on collaborative mapping is
>> fundamental for our OSGeo Community.
>>
>> Many thanks and best regards,
>>
>> Maria
>>
>>
>> Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:
>>
>>
>> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
>>
>> Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
>> Politecnico di Milano
>>
>>
>>
>> ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)"
>> http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of
>> OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
>> Advisory Board
>>
>>
>>
>> UN-GGIM Italy, UN-GGIM Academic Network Task Team, UN OpenGIS Initiative
>> (Chair of the Capacity Building WG)
>>
>>
>>
>> Sol Katz Award 2015
>>
>>
>>
>> P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
>>
>> Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  maria.brove...@polimi.it
>>
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